Sensed

Definition: Sensed

Sensed

Adjective

1. Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues; "the felt presence of an intruder"; "a sensed presence in the room raised goosebumps on her arms"; "a perceived threat".

Date "sensed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Synonyms: Sensed

Synonyms: felt (adj), perceived (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sensed

English words defined with "sensed": awkwardness ♦ felt, front ♦ inconvenience ♦ nuisance value ♦ perceived, phantom, presence ♦ sensible ♦ vibes, vibrations. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sensed": Airborne Snow Water Equivalent Measurement Theory, atrial inhibited, atrial triggered ♦ BARREL POLISHER, INSIDE ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision detection, carrier sense multiple access/collision detection, circulating storage, circulating store, Coastal Zone Color Scanner, color imagery, colour imagery, CSMA/CD, cyclic storage, cyclic store ♦ demand inhibited, dynamic memory, dynamic storage, dynamic store ♦ EDC, ENGRAVER, TIRE MOLD ♦ fixed-rate ♦ ground truth ♦ Infrared Rays, inside polisher ♦ Landscape Indicator, listen while transmitting, listen-while-talking, luminous efficiency ♦ machine sensible ♦ skid-machine operator ♦ tape row, thermocouple gage ♦ ventricular demand. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sensed

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I sensed a, a purity of spirit. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Well, you here for a reason, or you just rushed right over 'cause you sensed I might be experiencing some actual joy? (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sensed

Domain	Title
Books	Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data: Principles and Practices (reference) Classification Methods for Remotely Sensed Data (reference) Exploiting remotely sensed imagery : proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 11 and 12 March 1987 (reference) Extraction of Info from Remotely Sensed Images (reference) From Laboratory Spectroscopy to Remotely Sensed Spectra of Terrestrial Ecosystems (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Sensed

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	An infrared image transmitted from NOAA 2 satellite showing the East Coast of North America from the Gaspe Peninsula to northern Florida. A frontal system is offshore with "cloud streets" extending back to the west. This cold front brought low temperatures to the eastern United States. The image was sensed by the very high resolution radiometer with 1/2 mi. resolution.Credit: NOAA in Space.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sensed

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		That's because the familiar flavor of chocolate is sensed largely by odor. So is the well-known flavor of coffee. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Sensed

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	Industry has sensed the changed order and our own people are turning to resume their normal, onward way.
Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961	There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sensed

"Sensed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 82.64% of the time. "Sensed" is used about 938 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	82.64%	775	8,892
Lexical Verb (past participle)	15.97%	150	25,701
Adjective (general or positive)	1.38%	13	97,576
Total	100.00%	938	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sensed

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sensed": sensed-worlds.
	Ending with "sensed": remotely-sensed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sensed

Language		Translations for "sensed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		感觉 (Feeling, feelings, sensation, sense, Sensibilities, sensibility, sensing, sensorial). (various references)

German		spürte, gespürt. (various references)

Korean		느끼�". (various references)

Pig Latin		ensedsay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Sensed

Misspellings
	"Sensed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: essed, lensed, mensed, nessed, seised, Selsden, Senbef, sended, sendeth, Senedd, senet, Senex, sensa, sensay, sensee, sensel, senser, sensi, sensu, seshed, seyssel, shenzen, spenced, Svennsen, synset. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sensed"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sensed" (pronounced se"nst)
4	-e" n s t	against, commenced, condensed, dispensed, fenced, unfenced.
3	-n s t	advanced, announced, balanced, bounced, convinced, countenanced, counterbalanced, danced, denounced, distanced, enhanced, ensconced, entranced, evidenced, evinced, experienced, financed, glanced, incensed, inconvenienced, inexperienced, influenced, licensed, minced, mispronounced, nuanced, pounced, pronounced, referenced, refinanced, renounced, sentenced, silenced, trounced, unannounced, unbalanced, unbeknownst, unconvinced, underfinanced, unlicensed, winced.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sensed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-s-s"
	-1 letter: denes, dense, needs, seeds, sends, sense, sneds.
	-2 letters: dees, dene, dens, ends, eses, need, ness, seed, seen, sees, send, sene, sned.
	-3 letters: dee, den, eds, end, ens, ess, nee, see, sen.
	-4 letters: de, ed, en, es, ne.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-s-s"
	+1 letter: densest, dueness, endless, redness, resends, senders.
	+2 letters: adenoses, agedness, aniseeds, assented, censused, danseuse, dasheens, deadness, deafness, dearness, deepness, defenses, deftness, demesnes, demoness, descends, descents, destines, dewiness, direness, dispense, doneness, edginess, endorses, eyedness, finessed, idleness, lessened, lessoned, lewdness, linseeds, needless, nudeness, rudeness, seasoned, secondes, seedsman, seedsmen, sensated, spenders, spondees, standees, stenosed, syndeses, wideness.
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